Started with the words
When I started to think about writing short stories, I based the themed on horror and road trips. I started with writing down keywords as the stories title.
Title
Breakdown, Forest, Hitchhikers, Land,
How this helped is by having a keyword for my stories I needed to come up with a story that relates to each of these words.
Screenshot and image from the book
Book Cover
For my book cover, I started with coming up with two book cover's one drawn and the second a photo with added effect.
Cover started screenshot
Drawn
Blank Added drawings
Cloak figure design
For my cloak figure what I did is find a cloaked figure and then crop it down, and the did an outline the cloak then just added red eyes. This is for the drawn cover.
Image
(So Far)The Idea is to have the window on the car covered in frost then underneath are two eyes. How I got, the frost effect was by one using the colour white then using the text I used this font.
and the letter G which using this font looks like this.
Then using outer glow it helped spread them out making it look like frost.Using outer glow
This is what I used to help get the frosted effect on the car window.
Before discovering the text, I had found trying to create the frost a big challenge and was thinking of scrapping the idea.
Started (Not going to plan)
The drawing cover is turning out harder then what I had planned. Drawing the car outline an image of a car is not going as well as I expected. So what I am planning is to change it will another design.
New design sketch
Back up, book cover
Because of the trouble, I have the two main book cover; I decided to come up with a more straightforward book cover. Using google, I wrote in 'Road Journey book cover' and was mainly getting road style images/drawings. So going through the images I've taken, I've found a simple road image that because it is the best one I'll be using that one. The main reason for this cover is for it to be simple, not to add too much, but also do some changes.
So Far
Blank Added Image Added Font (working title)
Change image and add my name Finished with actually title
So the photoshop part is turning the image black and white and colouring the white line as red to give it that spooky look. This cover I like a lot and most likely will use as my book cover.
Images I'm working with
These are the images I am working with for my Book cover. The car window is cover 2 and road is for the simple cover.
Update books covers
These are the book cover I first decided to create, I didn't quite finish them, but I thought it still is good to show what I had so far. The reason, why they didn't completely get finished, is because of 1. The simple one I like and 2, because I push the deadline for my book to get printed forward and not giving me enough time.
In all honesty, I think the cover with the frost effect window doesn't look as good as it could and wouldn't make a good book cover or show it as an improvement from my last FMP book cover.
This is the cover with the image. I think the problem is if I showed someone this they wouldn't know that it was meant or was a car window. What I should have done is kept some image of the car like to roof and part of the bonnet. I think the problem I was very focused on getting the window how I had hope for it to look like. I like it, but I don't think it would be a great improvement. The two red dots are eyes, it meant to give a spooky look like something evil is in the car.
The other cover I am having trouble finding.
This was the sort of car that I wanted for my front cover and since I didn't know anyone who owned one I decided to get an image of google then make an outline of it on Photoshop. The second time I just removed the car and placed in photoshop to make it easier. Now I did outline the vehicle, but it was then that I realised how much detail there was and also needed to uses the same colour but in different brightness and darkness.
This was the start I made whilst trying to draw the Chevrolet Impala, the idea was to have a car in front and behind it was going to be the different characters and a scene from my book like a forest, hooded figure (the one of the cover) ghostly images and also maybe a handprint on the car window. But because drawing the car was causing trouble I stopped and went to focus on the cover with the frosted window with eyes.
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